Cookie policy
1. What this policy covers
This policy explains how visionpixel.pro uses cookies and similar browser storage, what your choices are, and how to change them. It applies to all visitors, wherever you are located; where the EU ePrivacy rules, the UK PECR or similar laws apply to you, this policy is designed to meet their consent standard.
2. What cookies and storage are
A cookie is a small text file a website asks your browser to keep. Similar technologies — local storage and session storage — do the same job in slightly different ways. Strictly necessary storage makes features work at all; analytics storage tells the site owner which pages are read; advertising trackers follow people across many websites to build profiles. This site uses the first kind always, the second only with your consent, and the third never.
It is worth knowing what these technologies cannot do: they cannot read files on your device, install software, or see what you do on other websites. Storage set by this site is readable only by this site.
3. What we actually use
| Item | Type | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| cookie consent choice | Local storage | Remembers your accept/decline decision so the banner does not nag | 12 months |
| interface preferences | Local storage | Remembers display preferences such as language choice | Until cleared |
| analytics identifiers | Cookies (optional) | Distinguish visits and count pages, with IP anonymisation | Up to 13 months |
4. The consent mechanism
On your first visit a banner offers Accept and Decline. Analytics code is not loaded at all until you press Accept — consent enforcement is structural, not a promise made to a script after the fact. Pressing Decline stores only the decision itself; the site works fully either way. You can verify this with any browser's developer tools by watching network requests on a fresh profile.
5. What analytics collect when you accept
Page views, approximate geography at country level, device type, referral source and session duration — used to answer questions like "which services page is actually read". We do not record form contents, we do not track you after you leave the site, and analytics data is never combined with enquiry or client records. Reports are reviewed in aggregate; there is no per-visitor view.
6. Changing your mind
To withdraw consent, clear site data for this domain in your browser settings; the banner will reappear on your next visit. Browser help pages for Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari explain per-site controls. Blocking all storage keeps the site readable, though preference remembering will not work.
7. Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control
Where we detect a Global Privacy Control or Do Not Track signal, we treat it as a decline of optional analytics: no banner, no analytics cookies. Strictly necessary storage continues because without it basic features cannot function.
8. Shared computers
If several people share one browser profile (common at reception desks), the consent choice is shared too. Use separate browser profiles for separate choices, or clear site data at the end of a shared session.
9. Third-party content
Pages on this site do not embed third-party trackers, social pixels or advertising networks. Outbound links (for example, to our Telegram channel) lead to services with their own policies once you leave this site.
10. Changes and questions
If we add or remove storage items, this page changes first and the consent banner resets so returning visitors are asked again. Questions: via the qTox channel on the Contact page. If you are in the UK or EU and believe your consent rights were not respected, you may complain to your data-protection authority — you do not need our involvement to do so.
10a. Legal bases for each category
Strictly necessary storage is used under the exemption for items essential to a service you requested — it cannot meaningfully be refused because without it the feature does not exist. Analytics is used only on the basis of your explicit consent, given through the banner. Where local law frames this differently, the stricter reading applies to you automatically.
10b. Record of consent
Your choice is stored only in your own browser; we do not maintain a server-side register of consent decisions because no account exists to attach them to. The practical consequence: if you clear site data, the site forgets your choice and asks again. Regulators accept this pattern for simple sites, and it has a privacy upside — your decision is yours, on your device, not a row in someone else's database.
10c. Analytics methodology
When consent is given, analytics events are sent without full IP addresses and without any cross-session identifiers beyond the anonymous cookie listed in section 3. We sample rather than collect everything where volumes allow, and raw events age out on the 13-month schedule. The analytics system is configured to respect the consent state on every page load — there is no "consent once, tracked forever" behaviour, and no fingerprinting techniques (canvas, fonts or otherwise) are used as a fallback when consent is declined.
11. First-party versus third-party
All storage this site relies on is first-party: it belongs to this domain, serves the feature you are using, and is not readable by anyone else. Where optional analytics are consented to, identifiers are configured as first-party with IP anonymisation. Third-party cookies — the kind that follow you between websites — are not set by this site at all. If your browser reports a third-party cookie while you are here, it did not come from us; check extensions and other open tabs.
12. Lifetimes explained
Session items disappear when you close the browser. Persistent items carry an expiry date; ours are listed in the table in section 3. We deliberately avoid long-lived identifiers: optional analytics cookies expire after 13 months at the latest, which matches the retention ceiling recommended by European regulators. When an item expires, the browser deletes it automatically — no action needed from you.
13. Frequently asked questions about cookies here
Will declining break the site? No. The site is readable and the contact form works regardless of your analytics choice; only preference-remembering depends on storage. Do you use data to price differently per visitor? No — quotes depend on scope, never on cookies. How do I withdraw consent later? Clear site data for this domain and the banner returns on your next visit. Where can I complain? To us via the qTox channel on the Contact page, and to your local data-protection authority if you are unsatisfied.
13a. Analytics retention detail
Consented analytics events are stored for a maximum of 13 months, after which they are deleted or fully aggregated beyond recognition. Consent records themselves live only in your browser, as described in section 10b — there is no server-side consent ledger to retain. If you withdraw consent, no historical deletion request is needed for the analytics identifiers, because they were never linked to you in the first place.
13b. Cookies in embedded third-party services
Some features may load third-party pages in the browser — for example, opening our Telegram channel or a payment page. Once you follow such a link, you are on that provider's service and their cookie policy applies. We list such outbound points plainly and never embed their trackers into our pages.
13c. Frequently asked technical questions
Does the banner itself set a cookie? It stores your choice in local storage — strictly necessary, as the law intends: remembering a refusal is what makes the refusal durable. Do you honour browser-level cookie blocking? Yes; blocked storage simply means the site asks again next visit. Are analytics cookies shared with advertisers? No — this site carries no advertising trackers at all, so there is no one to share with. Where exactly is the consent code? In the banner script at the end of each page; auditable in any browser's developer tools.
13d. Why the banner behaves the way it does
The banner blocks nothing while undecided because the site sets no optional cookies before consent — there is nothing to block. Some sites show a banner while trackers already run behind it; that pattern is precisely what regulators reject, and it is not how this site is built. If you ever see analytics requests firing before a choice on this domain, treat it as a bug and tell us: that would mean this policy and the code diverged, and the code would be fixed to match the policy, not the other way round.
14. Glossary
Cookie — a small text file stored by your browser for a website. Local storage — a browser feature similar to cookies, used here for your consent choice and preferences. First-party — set by the site you are visiting. Third-party — set by another domain; not used here. Session storage — deleted when the browser closes. Persistent storage — kept until its expiry date. IP anonymisation — truncating the address so analytics cannot identify an individual visitor.